Meditation is trying to get a control over your thoughts, being more relaxed and trying to calm your mind through various techniques like concentrating on an object steadfastly

1. Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.
Swami Vivekananda

2. Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that's been missing.
Russell Simmons

3. The thing about meditation is. You become more and more you.
David Lynch

4. I meditate so that my mind cannot complicate my life.
Sri Chinmoy

5. May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.
Kate Forsyth

6. Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the ends.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

7. Meditation means the recognition or the discovery of one's own true self.
Sri Chinmoy

8. Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God
Anonymous

9. That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds
Anonymous

10. The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Confucius

11. Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.
Swami Muktananda

12. Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself.
Zen Master Dogen

13. Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all sorts of things. But nobody seems to appreciate this kind of natural beauty of ourselves. This is actually far more beautiful than flora and fauna, far more fantastic, far more painful and colorful and delightful.
Chogyam Trungpa

14. Meditation is like breaking out of a personal prison and finding paradise
Anonymous

15. Meditation is like giving a hug to our ourselves, getting in touch whith that awesome reality in us. While meditating we feel a deep sense of intimacy with God, a love that is inexplicable.
Paramahansa Yogananda

16. Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
Jeremy Taylor

17. Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit
Anonymous

18. Meditation slows me down, allows me to savour the moment, and attracts my next good moments through visualization
Anonymous

19. Quiet the mind and the soul will speak
Anonymous

20. Spiritual growth comes from a practice of meditation because meditation brings a growing sense of egolessness. Anonymous

21. The goal is to become more aware of your thoughts and emotions and learn how to move through them without getting stuck.
Dr. P. Goldin

22. The more regularly and the more deeply you meditate, the sooner you will find yourself acting always from a center of inner peace.
J. Donald Walters

23. Go Within Every Day and Find the Inner Strength so That the World Will Not Blow Your Candle out.
Katherine Dunham

24. Meditate. Let the light of the heart engulf you.
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

25. Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
Hermann Hesse

26. Meditation the first and last freedom
Anonymous

27. The stormy life can be braved only by the heart's sunny Meditations.
Sri Chinmoy

28. The mind is everything. What you think, you become.
Buddha

29. Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind.
Hugh Jackman

30. Smile breathe and go slowly.
Thich Nhat Hanh

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31. If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.
Alan Cohen

32. I am naturally gifted at meditation.
Pleiadian

33. Sleep is the best meditation.
Dalai Lama

34. May you live every day of your life.
Jonathan Swift

35. Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
Buddha

36. Prayer is when you talk to god, meditation is when god talks to you.
Anonymous

37. Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul.
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

38. Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Baba Ram Dass

39. The Soul Always Knows What to Do to Heal Itself. The Challenge Is to Silence the Mind.
Caroline Myss

40. You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day – unless you're too busy; then you should sit for an hour.
Old Zen adage

41. Learn to enjoy the way as much as you would enjoy when you reach the destination.
Sakshi Chetana

42. If we can make just 1% of the population meditative, this world will be a different place
Anonymous

43. Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
Ajahn Brahm

44. Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path.
Thich Nhat Hanh

45. Only in my meditation do i come to know who i truly am.
Sri Chinmoy

46. I meditate. So that I can inundate. My entire being. With the omnipotent power of peace.
Sri Chinmoy

47. Meditation teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured
Anonymous

48. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
St. Francis of Assisi

49. To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders
Anonymous

50. Meditation means dissolving the invisible walls that unawareness has built
Anonymous

51. Meditation. ..because some questions can't be answered by Google
Anonymous

52. Meditation is listening to the Divine within.
Edgar Cayce

53. The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.
Sakyong Mipham

54. If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate.
Ajahn Chah

55. I can only give my best to others when I am in touch with the best in myself
Anonymous

56. Buddha was asked, “What have you gained from meditation”. He replied, nothing. However, I have lost: Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Insecurity & Fear of old age and Death
Buddha

57. Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.
Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

58. If the ocean can calm itself, so can you. We are both salt water mixed with air.
Meditation,Nayyirah Waheed

59. Once you are maditative, music will naturally be a part of your life. Everything is vibration. Everything is sound.
Anonymous

60. The goal of meditation isn't to control your thoughts, it's to stop letting them control you
Anonymous

61. What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Henry David Thoreau